One of the world’s biggest games is getting a huge new mode
Epic Games has made the leak official: the new Fortnite Creative mode will be released on Dec. 6 for Battle Pass owners, and all players will get access to their own private islands on Dec. 13.
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“Design games, race around the island, battle your friends in new ways and build your dream Fortnite,” the Fortnite team wrote in the official announcement. “It’s all happening on your own private island where everything you make is saved.”
You
can watch a trailer at the top of this post; it looks wild. While more
information about the Fortnite Creative will be released in the coming
weeks, Epic has already met with a number of YouTubers to prepare videos
explaining the mode and its features. Here is the full list of the
English-language videos available now:
- BajanCanadian’s Creative Video
- BasicallyIdoWrk’s Creative Video
- Gummy’s Creative Video
- I AM WILDCAT’S Creative Video
- InTheLittleWood’s Creative Video
- Lachlan’s Creative Video
- Loserfruit’s Creative Video
- Rifty’s Creative Video
- TBNRFrag’s Creative Video
It was Lachlan’s video that was released ahead of schedule, breaking the news about this mode and providing everyone with the first details about what to expect.
Epic
Games seems to have done a great job making sure the mode is accessible
for players of various skill levels, while also offering enough options
to make it worthwhile for fans that want to make serious new creations.
You can bring in pre-built structures or obstacle courses from the
pre-fab menu, or spawn in a materials gallery if you’d like to start
from scratch.
Another interesting tease happens during BajanCanadian’s video,
where he notes that you’ll be able to spawn vehicles using the devices
menu, but due to some incoming surprises, he can’t actually show you
that menu yet. You can already see still-unannounced items like new
traps — such as electric fences and ice sheets or oil slicks — in the
video too, along with the ability to spawn your own chests and loot
llamas and fill them with whatever you’d like.
The possibilities
here feel limitless, even if Epic Games is warning that the initial
release is going to be “rough.” Sharing your own maps and game modes, or
just using the tools to create wild videos, is going to go a long way
toward keeping Fortnite fresh for the foreseeable future. The
community of players and content creators is about to get a powerful new
tool, and it’s going to be exciting to see what they do with it.
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